The Game of Thrones Thread (With Spoilers)

I do believe that lovely sand snake is poisoned and dead.

 

Bronn knows all too well about the poison... and that it has a remedy. Remember who gave him the remedy?

 

Yep. But it's pretty immediate, as I remember, and she's chained up. Not gonna hold out hope for this one. In a more conventional show, maybe.

 

If you have access to the making of feature on the Loot Train Battle, then I highly suggest you check it out.

They set a record for having 20 actors on fire simultaneously

 

That sand snake died within a day. Meanwhile, for the events to transpire in the past two episodes, would take several months of time.

 

I saw it too and thought it was cool. A lot of the times, to me, the 'making of' is at least as cool as the show or movie itself.

 

The only reason I'm still watching, though probably not much for longer...

 

bad pun humor I created https://gifsound.com/?gifv=mFamH8e&v=APyl6Cnbfzw&s=64

 

One thing that wasn't mentioned. In the dragonglass cave Jon showed Daenerys drawings of Children of the Forest fighting together with humans against the white walkers. That's a pretty big departure from the storyline in the books.

If memory serves, the humans chased the Children so badly to extinction and all the way to the North of Westeros that one point the Children said "f**k all that" and used powerful magic to create the white walkers, so as to balance some the power and destructive drive of the humans. The Children could protect themselves from the white walkers using magic. But I don't think that at any point did the Children and the humans fight the dead together, in brotherly admiration and support...

 

What Jon isn't telling us is that he picked up a rock in the cave and carved out those pictures himself so he could convince Dany to believe him.

 

jon has a good track record taking women into caves *trolface*

 

Wish granted... Now the future of House Tarly rests exclusively in the hands of Samwell and his wildling girl. Randal Tarly would be turning in his... oh, wait, he can't.

I suspect -- nay, hope -- there'll be a spin. Bran can see a whole effing lot, and he already gave Arya a cool dagger. I think it should fit Littlefinger's neck quite well if Bran were to snitch on him.

They have to. And seems like a George Martin trademark. In the books he went on to create this enormous universe in Westeros that later on he could barely manage and contain. When he reached the Vale (book 3 or 4, I think), he didn't have neither time nor space so he ended up basically listing all the different smaller houses without much of an explanation or description. Holds for the whole GoT universe as well: Way too big and with politics too intricate to decently explore in the author's lifetime, or in any TV series that wishes to have an end season at some point. So it's not all that surprising to me that they're spinning the narrative to light speed mode and eagerly cutting a whole number of corners.


On an unrelated note, it felt weird to me that Jon would be going so eagerly beyond the wall. To convince Cersei of anything reasonable? To make an appeal to her sense of altruism and for the greater good? The risk/reward trade-off makes no sense to me here. I expect the books, if they're published in my lifetime, will present these things quite a bit differently.

 

Where can we buy some "fermented crabs"?

Can we make it even?

 

I was a little unimpressed that Bronn and Jaime were able to escape capture from The Dragon Queen and her Dothraki horde by... ...swimming to the other side of a pond.